United States ex rel. Chestatee Pyrites & Chemical Corp. v. Wilbur

YAN ORSDEL, Associate Justice.

This ease was brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia under the Act of February 13,1929 (45 Stat. 1166), to obtain a review of certain questions of law decided by the Secretary of the Interior and involved in petitioner’s original claim for losses sustained in producing or preparing to produce war minerals.

On March 5, 1919, relator company filed with the Secretary of the Interior a claim for losses occasioned through expenditures it had made for the production of pyrites under the conditions specified in section 5 of the Aet of March 2, 1919 (40…